Clement Attlee lacked most of the qualities that make for success in politics. He was almost cripplingly shy and self-effacing. His appearance was unimpressive, his speeches uninspiring, his lack of ...

There is much disingenuous myth-making around Attlee today, argues John Bew, but there has been nothing like his government, before or since The members’ lobby of the House of Commons is dominated by ...

Yet, in today’s political climate, characterised by polarisation and wall-to-wall media coverage, how has the post-war prime minister’s legacy endured? In 1948, Britain’s working class, plagued by ...

Clement Attlee, 1950 © Attlee was the British Labour Party leader for 20 years, and presided over the 1945 - 1951 Labour government. This was the most significant ...

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, was a British Labour Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United ...

At the state funeral of Winston Churchill, one of the pallbearers was Clement Attlee, his wartime deputy. The massive TV audience witnessed a deathly frail Attlee stumble as the lead-lined coffin was ...

FIFTY years ago tomorrow, on October 8, 1967, Britain’s first post-Second World War prime minister, Clement Attlee, died of pneumonia in Westminster Hospital. His funeral was attended by 2000 people, ...

Attlee was born on 2 January 1883. He had a conventional middle-class upbringing, and after going to Oxford University began a career as a barrister. However, he abandoned this to become a social ...

Clement Attlee's Labour government rebuilt Britain after the Second World War and left a contested legacy that has been claimed by both major parties ever since. Clement Attlee laying the foundation ...

In 2004, a University of Leeds/Ipsos MORI poll of university academics rated Clement Attlee as the twentieth-century’s greatest Prime Minister with an average mark of 8.34 out of 10; Winston Churchill ...

THIS coming Saturday, Tony Blair will beat Clement Attlee’s total of six years and 92 days as prime minister, and already the achievement is being used as a rod with which to chastise him. How much ...